One day after Barack Obama's victory in 2008, the president-elect's campaign team launched its official transition website. The administration "will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government," they wrote. A little ...
The left's wailing about gun control should have been over at least two weeks ago, but Alex Jones's erratic interview with Piers Morgan provided enough fuel to keep the anti-gun flames stoked for many weeks into the future. I recently chronicled the sporadic blame game that arose in Sandy Hook's ...
Weeks after the Sandy Hook shooting, which was blamed on everything from Ke$ha to Mortal Kombat, most news outlets are still in panic mode. One newspaper, though, went “full retard.” The Journal News of Lower Hudson sought to shame gun owners, specifically the ones who obtained their ...
Nowadays the first step to take after a school shooting, far from mourning or otherwise feeling sorry for the families whose children were killed by a maniac, is calling for new and immediate restrictions on gun ownership. The second step is insisting that there must be some external reason why ...
Immigrants in the early 20th century celebrated US citizenship. The threat of illness, death, and separation from their wives and children failed to deter these Europeans who fled their home countries for the promise of a better future. To them, the United States was a safe, free haven distant ...
On Monday, Iranians mourned the anniversary of a civilian airliner that a US missile shot down in 1988. The strike killed all 290 people aboard. This is the event that led George H. W. Bush to say, "I’ll never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don"t care what the ...
About two months ago I mentioned my disappointment that Raleigh, NC lacked Southern culture, only to be informed in the comment section that true sweet-tea-drinking Southerners don"t even consider the city to be part of the South. The longer I stay in this godforsaken place the better I ...
The Tea Party emerged about a year after I first got interested in libertarian politics, and I was proud to see people protesting against taxation and supporting individual freedom. They seemed committed to a vision of how to return our country to its roots. Slowly, though, the issues became less ...
Tuesday was World Environment Day. I loathe the environment. The United Nations has been stoking the flames of Earth worship since the early 1970s, when global cooling was all the rage. This year's theme is "Green Economy: Does it include you?" My answer is a resounding "NO." The ...
Last week three activists associated with the Occupy movement were arrested and accused of plotting an attack to protest the NATO summit. The group allegedly stockpiled Molotov cocktails and planned to burn down Barack Obama's campaign headquarters and Rahm Emanuel's house among other ...
